Stanley Buder’s scientific contributions

... In this setting, the "new company town" model emerged from the social ideas of the Progressive Era; these garden cities featured social programs and welfare capitalism to promote worker productivity (Dinius and Vergara 2011). Reformers hoped to escape the social ills and environmental pollution of the Gilded Age with the Progressive Era's social and environmental reforms in settings away from city limits where one could hold values of self-improvement, sobriety, punctuality, and social order (e.g., manners, consumerism in one's class), and sexual repression (Buder 1967;Cowie 2011:21). These values, alongside rural contexts with fresh air and room to grow, motivated the design of company towns with "ideals of community, civic pride, education, physical and mental health, moral rectitude, and religious values" (Metheny 2006:19). ...

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Archaeologies of Company Towns and Their Landscapes of Power